this question would be more appropriate for the samba list.I think the caching mechanism you want is only possible with samba 4,which is not yet ready for production use. Quoting Yann Durieux <yann.durieux@xxxxxxxxx>: > hi there, > > i've got some problem recently with a squid (2.5Stable14) on linux > (Red Hat ES 4). > > The server has joined a windows domain (with samba 3). > > Actually, my problem is that, from time to time, but usually on pick > hours, squid have all is ntlm process busy. At the same time, winbind > don't have any process available. (allreday ask samba time for this > too) > > Squid is configured with 70 children for NTLM. (maybe that's wrong) > > I've tried to use the max_challenge_reuses, but didn't work at all > (users were asked for there login with authentication popup on there > browser). > > Does anyone know how to tune, or which parameter to tune to make it > works better on heavy load ? > > For info, i have 600 users for now on 3 squid behind a loadbalancer. I > should have 9000 users once this problem is resolved. > > Also, I would like to avoid that squid sends an authentication request > to the ADs each time he needs to, and instead uses a sort of cache for > authenticated users. > > Thanks > > Yann > > -- Peter Collins Wasenda Network Administrator IT Division, Corporate Services Uganda Revenue Authority P.O. Box 7279, Kampala Tel: (041)334474,334535 Mob: 0752-996477 --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.